April 12, 2012

Report Points To Low Graduation Rates For Latino College Students

In Texas, which has the country’s second-largest Latino population, experts say that closing the gap in college graduation rates between Latinos and Anglos will be critical to ensuring that the state has an educated workforce in the next 20 years. A report released today by Excelenciain Education, a national nonprofit that promotes policies aimed at improving Latino achievement in higher education, shows that approximately 17 percent of Latino adults in Texas have an associate's degree or higher, compared with 34 percent of all Texas adults. The report notes that the graduation rate for Latino college students in Texas is about 10 percentage points lower than that of white students. Read more at:http://www.texastribune.org/texas-education/higher-education/meet-national-goals-latino-graduation-rates-are-ke/